Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense authorities worried. Parents who have never bothered to give blood for the wounded in Korea might gladly give buckets to get shots of G.G. for their own children. Blood banks might give a credit of one inoculation for every pint of blood that the family donates. But the bottleneck in processing, the wrangles over distribution, and the high price of G.G. will remain to plague the authorities...
...heart patient has a bottleneck in the mitral valve, it can be opened with a tiny knife on the end of the surgeon's finger. But this daring operation will do little good if the valve to the aorta (main artery) is also narrowed, and there has been no way to repair this second defect. Dr. Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia, who developed the first operation, now has another for opening the aortic valve: he pushes piano wire into the valve through the heart, and uses it as a guide for a spreader which opens the valve...
...Bottleneck Stopper. One of the chief bottlenecks of aircraft production, the making of turbine blades for jet engines, may be solved by a new machine developed by England's Omes, Ltd. Already in operation at the Utica (N.Y.) Drop Forge & Tool Corp., the machine precision-forges blades in half the time and at half the cost of present methods. Price...
...bottleneck section of the aorta was cut out and the ends were spliced together. Lorraine spent 33 days in the hospital. Last week, after another stay in the hospital, she went home with a healthy, 8-lb. daughter. Lorraine's heart is in fine shape. And her feet are warm. "No one who hasn't had cold feet all his life knows how wonderful it is," she said...
...Force also plans to have the Harvey Machine Co. (TIME, Dec. 24) operate two more in California, from United and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. Dow Chemical Co. may also get one for magnesium forgings. The big presses have already proved their worth, even though the present bottleneck in plane production is engines and not air frames. The Wyman-Gordon press has been operating 16 hours a day, and the two German presses are now both...